Dr.DAYAN JAYATILLEKA, Feb 4
    

Sri Lanka celebrates Independence Day this year with the State in a better state than it has been for three decades. The country is a single united territory; unquestionably a single political entity. The borders of the state are coextensive with our natural borders, the sea. The writ of the state runs from North to South, East to West. The state’s monopoly of organized violence has been restored. The travesty of an armed proto-state within the state has been excised. A Thirty Years war has been won and a hideous, powerful challenger, accurately described by The Economist (Jan 28, 2010) as “a textbook fascist”, put down. National independence and sovereignty have asserted themselves against attempts at interference and intervention. Electoral democracy survived both terrorism and the war against it.

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Mahinda looks set to win the general elections as well.

I don't think the UNP and Sarath Fonseka will have learnt anything by then.

Dayan wrote:

The Sinhala masses (not just the Buddhist, because the Catholic areas, Negombo apart, voted for Mahinda, corresponding to the ethnic mix of those areas) who constituted the main force of the armed struggle for national reunification.....

Dayan Jayathileka here is an advise to you from Mahinda Rajapakse;

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'Hereafter, we will not entertain narrow divisions based on race, religion, language and political ideology in terms of regions,' he said. 'There is no one called a minority in this country, all those who love the country are children of mother Lanka.'